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Environmental Research volume 137  February 2015, Pages 136–140 Highlights The results obtained tend to question the WHO health protection threshold values. This study highlights the importance of traffic noise to the health in large cities. These results serve to highlight … Continue reading →

The promotion of active travel is one of the most effective ways to promote physical activity because it can be built into people’s daily lives. There is evidence from around the world, reviewed in Health on the Move 2 
that people … Continue reading →

Volume 1  – Issue 4 – December 2014 Walking & Cycling: The contributions of health and transport geography Active transport: Why and where do people (not) walk or cycle? Seraphim Alvanides The marginalisation of bicycling in Modernist urban transport planning … Continue reading →

Editorial Jennifer S. Mindell   Excess passenger weight impacts on US transportation systems fuel use (1970–2010) Michelle Tom, Paul Fischbeck, Chris Hendrickson Highlights We estimate excess passenger weight in US transportation systems from 1970 to 2010. We determine excess passenger … Continue reading →

  Journal of Transport & Health – Volume 1 Issue 2 – June 2014 Editorial for JTH Volume 1, Issue 2 Jennifer S. Mindell   TRB Health and Transportation Subcommittee Eloisa Tigre Raynault, Ed Christopher   The impact of health … Continue reading →

France and Sweden (the home nations of Renault and Volvo) have been blocking the possibility of safer lorry design so that such lorries may not appear on European roads until 2025. The revision of this legislation, which allows for the … Continue reading →

Volume 1 Issue 1  – March 2014 Welcome to the Journal of Transport and Health Jennifer S. Mindell   Health on the Move 2. Policies for health-promoting transport J.S. Mindell   The Transport and Health Study Group Stephen J. Watkins   … Continue reading →

Aim: To create leaders who can implement and assess policy across the essential services of transport and health. A new approach: The MSc in Transport, Health and Policy deliberately breaks from a technical topic-per-module approach, instead focussing on stages within … Continue reading →

A meeting on the potential health and wellbeing impacts of HS2 will be held at the House of Commons on: Tuesday 25th March 2014 at 2:00-4:00pm in Room CR6, at The House of Commons Everyone is welcome. Please contact Liz Davies, thsgchair … Continue reading →